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For Mother’s Day many of us will be encouraging our own geeklets & geeklings to express their own views of growing up with Geek Moms. We are well aware of how we feel, but what effect does our geekiness have on our children? My daughter is only three and while she can’t write yet, she does have her own, very cute if I do say so myself, take on my being a geek. The following interview was broken up over several days in an attempt to get as realistic an answer as possible. You’ll see that didn’t necessarily work as planned, but I have to believe it helped at least a little.

Abigail: It has a slide. (In explanation I work at Science Museum Oklahoma, admittedly quite geeky, and we have a 3 story corkscrew slide as a part of an exhibit on simple machines. But I like how that is what defines my workplace as geeky for her.)

Me: Is being a geek a good thing?

Abigail: Yeah

Me: Why do you think that?

Abigail: Yeah, because they can be silly!

Me: You think geeks are silly?!?

Abigail: Yeah (Insert tickle fight here)

Me: Do you want Momma to stop being a geek?

Abigail: No, you wouldn’t be my Momma then and you wouldn’t have necklaces for me to play with. (I’m not sure how these two things correlate directly but at the time I asked her this I was getting ready for work and putting on a necklace)

Me: I wouldn’t be Momma then. Why?

Abigail: Because Momma’s a geek.

Me: Do you want to be a geek too?

Abigail: (Indignant) I AM A GEEK!

Me: Why?

Abigail: Because I have a lot of books and toys and one bed. You have a HUGE bed.

Me: Does that make me extra geeky?

Abigail: Yes.

I did my best to record her answers as they came out of her mouth. I can’t say I’m not incredibly proud of her, not only for her being my daughter, but for her creativity and her earnestness. I intend to crawl into my HUGE, geeky bed with my wonderful geeklet daughter and watch Disney movies and play with every ounce of jewelry in my jewelry box til we just can’t take it anymore. Happy Mother’s Day!